Table of Contents
Analyst’s Comment
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- Black clouds and silver linings
- Loss makers
- Administration
- More to come
- Not altogether a bad thing
Headlines of the Month
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- Figure 1: Retailers’ trading statements, Christmas 2008
- Failures
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Retail Sales – Background and Outlook
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- Retail sales trends
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- Figure 2: Retail sales trends, Nov 2007-Nov 2008
- Early indications for December
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- Figure 3: UK retail sales y/y growth, BRC vs ONS, 2007/08
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- Figure 4: John Lewis: Year on year growth, H2 2008/09
- December – the evidence so far
- BRC data for December
- Consumers at the end of the year
- Inflation and wages
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- Figure 5: RPI vs Wage rate growth, 2006-08
- Inflation has begun to fall back
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- Figure 6: Annual percentage change in Retail Price Index for selected product groups, Aug 2007-Dec 2008
- 2009
Sector Focus – Clothing and Footwear Retailers
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- Sales trends
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- Figure 7: Clothing and footwear specialist retailers, sales trends, 1998-2008
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- Figure 8: Clothing and footwear retailers as % of all retail sales, 1998-2008
- Subsectors
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- Figure 9: Breakdown of clothing and footwear retailers’ sales by sub-sector, 1998-2008
- Retail price inflation
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- Figure 10: Indices of retail prices for key product categories, 1998-2008
- Consumer expenditure
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- Figure 11: Consumer expenditure on selected product categories, 1998-2008
- Clothing sector
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- Figure 12: Clothing specialists: Leading retailers’ share of clothing retailers’ sales, 2007
- Footwear sector
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- Figure 13: Footwear specialists: Leading retailers’ share of footwear retailers’ sales, 2007
Executive Appointments
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- JJB appoints Jones as executive chairman
Advertising News
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- New campaigns
- Asda pushes green image with new TV ad
- Accounts gains and losses
- B&Q reviews £40m ad contract
- Debenhams calls pitch for £15m ad account
- Lowe London resigns John Lewis ad account
- Tesco Personal Finance hires BLM Quantum
- The Body Shop drops Leagas Delaney
Advertising Expenditure
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- Figure 14: Total advertising expenditure by all advertisers (£m), Oct 2004-Oct 2008
- Figure 15: Total advertising expenditure by all retail advertisers (£m), Oct 2004-Oct 2008
- Use of media
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- Figure 16: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (£m), Oct 2007-Oct 2008
- Figure 17: Use of media by retail and all advertisers (%), Oct 2007-Oct 2008
- Top 25 retail advertisers
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- Figure 18: Top 25 retailers by adspend (£), Sep 2008-Oct 2008
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The Month in UK Retailing
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- Bakers (retail)
- Thorntons sales slip 2.3%
- Co-ops (retail)
- The Co-operative Group
- … reveals £200m store refits
- … thrives during Christmas
- Somerfield posts strong FY results
- Grocers
- Asda
- … initiates supermarket price war
- … enjoys Christmas sales boost
- Lidl to open 50 new stores
- Sainsbury's boasts "best ever Christmas performance"
- Tesco
- … to launch 200 new Discounter range products
- … earns £308m from sale and leaseback deal
- Off-licences
- Majestic Wine sales go sour
- Clothing retailing
- Adams goes into administration
- Alexon reveals LFL drop
- Blooming Marvellous braced for administration
- Laura Ashley suffers LFL sales slump
- Mosaic
- … to enter talks to secure funding
- … issues profit warning
- New Look experiences festive sales joy
- Officers Club saved by chief executive
- Peacocks LFLs soar 22% in two weeks
- Ted Baker reveals festive sales cheer
- Viyella slips into administration
- Mixed goods retailing
- Argos reins in expansion plans
- Poundland
- … to open 35 more stores
- … reports strong Christmas sales
- Woolworths
- … in last-ditch rescue talks with Mulcahy
- … trades for one more day
- Multi-sector retailing
- Marks & Spencer
- … lays off 1,000 people
- … LFLs plummet 7.1%
- Next suffers sales drop
- Whittard
- … on the brink of administration
- … rescued by Epic
- Department stores
- Debenhams reports robust Christmas trading
- House of Fraser sales up 4.5% over Christmas period
- John Lewis
- … sees weekly sales increase
- … boasts sales boost in Christmas spending
- … sales surge
- DIY retailing
- Kingfisher calls for new rent payment structure
- Strategic Retail places subsidiaries in administration
- Electrical retailing
- Kesa sees profits plummet 71.2%
- Music and video goods retailing
- Zavvi closes 22 stores, cuts 178 jobs
- Carpet retailing
- Allied Carpets put up for sale
- Carpetright
- … profit slumps 67.6%
- … eyes rivals
- United Carpets reports H1 results
- Furniture retailing
- Habitat to venture into Russia and the Middle East
- Sofa Workshop on brink of administration
- Homewares retailing
- Dunelm reveals drop in LFLs
- Home shopping
- Findel posts robust Christmas results
- M and M Direct sees festive sales surge 31%
- Ocado reports strong Christmas results
- Shop Direct Group posts 9% sales increase
- Sports and leisure goods retailing
- Blacks Leisure sees sales decline
- JJB Sports
- … closes five Qube stores
- … appoints Jones as executive chairman
- JD Sports enjoys fruitful Christmas
- Sports Direct
- … posts H1 profit boost
- … owner to halt strategic stakebuilding
- Jewellers
- Signet reports sales slump
- Theo Fennell suffers H1 loss
- Garden centres
- Hunter to lose Wyevale stake to HBOS
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